Active Fault-Tolerant Control for Near-Space Hypersonic Vehicles

Due to the harsh working environment, Near-Space Hypersonic Vehicles (NSHVs) have the characteristics of frequent faults, which seriously affect flight safety. However, most researches focus on active fault-tolerant control for actuator faults. In order to fill the gap of active fault-tolerant control for sensor faults, this paper presents an Active Fault-Tolerant Control (AFTC) strategy for NSHVs based on Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) combined with fault diagnosis and evaluation. With the proposed AFTC strategy, both sensor faults and actuator faults can be compensated within 0.5 s. Wavelet packet decomposition and Kernel Extreme Learning Machine (KELM) are associated to ensure the high accuracy and real-time ability of fault diagnosis. Simulation results show that the proposed fault diagnosis method can significantly reduce the divergence of diagnosis results by up to 98%. The fault information is used to generate tolerant compensation, which is combined with the ADRC to achieve AFTC. Statistical results indicate that AFTC has significantly lower static error than ADRC. The proposed AFTC method endows NSHVs with the ability to complete missions even when various types of faults appear. Its advantages are demonstrated in comparison with other fault diagnosis and tolerant control methods.